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The CAROLINE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 413 48109 0 1
United States (1880 census) 75 37969 0 2
Change since 1880 +338 -10140 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 6 131535 0 0
United Kingdom 75 25012 0 2
Top States for CAROLINE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 51 40643 0.000 2
Florida 49 30950 0.000 3
New York 33 50722 0.000 2
Pennsylvania 29 45250 0.000 2
Texas 26 41261 0.000 1
Top States for CAROLINE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 10 9802 0.002 16
Washington DC 5 11011 0.001 9
Montana 5 24562 0.001 6
Connecticut 15 30146 0.000 4
Massachusetts 24 28979 0.000 4

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called CAROLINE live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CAROLINE represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CAROLINE in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CAROLINE by picking someone at random in North Dakota than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CAROLINE

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the CAROLINE surname.

Ethnic distribution of CAROLINE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 289 69.98
Black/African American 92 22.28
White (Hispanic) 14 3.39
Asian/Pacific 12 2.91
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the CAROLINE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

CAROLINE is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of CAROLINE in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of CAROLINE.

Similar names to CAROLINE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CAROLINE.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for CAROLINE

The following words are slight variants of CAROLINE that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.